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Fictional languages are the subset of constructed languages (conlangs) that have been created as part of a fictional setting (e.g. for use in a book, movie, television show, or video game). Typically they are the creation of one individual, while natural languages evolve out of a particular culture or people group, and other conlangs may have ...
Language of the citizens of the mythical city of Atlantis. Ku: The Interpreter: 2005 Said el-Gheithy Fictional African language. Naʼvi: Avatar: 2009 Paul Frommer: Spoken by the Naʼvi. Barsoomian: John Carter: 2012 Paul Frommer, Edgar Rice Burroughs: Language of the Martians. Kiliki: Baahubali: 2015 Madhan Karky: Spoken by the Kalakeyas. [5 ...
The best-known constructed scripts dedicated to fictional languages are J. R. R. Tolkien's elaborate Tengwar and Cirth, but many others exist, such as the pIqaD script for Star Trek's Klingon language, [7] and D'ni from the Myst series of video games. [8]
The Conlang Flag, a symbol of language construction created by subscribers to the CONLANG mailing list, which represents the Tower of Babel against a rising sun. A constructed language (shortened to conlang) [a] is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised ...
A constructed language may also be referred to as an artificial, planned or invented language, or (in some cases) a fictional language. Planned languages (or engineered languages/engelangs) are languages that have been purposefully designed; they are the result of deliberate, controlling intervention and are thus of a form of language planning.
For the TV series, language creator David J. Peterson created the High Valyrian language, as well as the derivative languages Astapori and Meereenese Valyrian, based on fragments from the novels. [1] Valyrian and Dothraki have been described as "the most convincing fictional tongues since Elvish". [2]
Alphabet of the fictional Kesh language in her novel Always Coming Home: Ancient 2019 Inkle: Logographic script of the fictional Ancients in their game Heaven's Vault: Ariyaka: c. 1840: Mongkut: Invented to transcribe Pali, the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism, and inspired by the Greek and Burmese-Mon scripts: Armenian: Armn: ca. 405 ...
Language creators whose work has been published in books or other media that they created: Richard Adams: Lapine, in Watership Down; M.A.R. Barker: Tsolyáni for Tékumel; Hector Berlioz; Marion Zimmer Bradley; Anthony Burgess: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange and a prehistoric language in Quest for Fire. Samuel R. Delany